While fire is the traditional means of destroying evil, sometimes cold works just as well. This can range from liquid nitrogen to just luring your opponent into a very cold place. Attacking people in this way almost always results in an instant kill through immediate cessation of bodily function, although in real life it would still take time to induce hypothermia or stop the heart.

Captain Hitsugaya possesses the strongest ice/snow type zanpakutou in Soul Society. As long as there is moisture around, he can create ice attacks. His powers range from creating ice clones of himself to distract enemies to transforming the weather for miles around into an ice-making weapon that kills anything that touches the falling snow.

Rukia possesses an ice/snow type zanpakutou that lowers the temperature of her own body. Anything that comes into contact with her body or sword is immediately reduced to the same temperature, transforming to ice. She is capable of reaching Absolute Zero and bringing her enemies down to that temperature as well. Her special techniques and especially her Bankai serve to increase the power's range, allowing her to "touch" and thereby freeze enemies without having to get close enough to make physical contact.

In Slayers, there are a variety of ice-based magic spells, ranging from the "weak enough to use on yourself as air conditioning" to the "instant kill if used on a human". The strongest such attack is Dynast Breath, which freezes the target within ice. The ice then shatters, and the victim with it.

Evangeline A.K. McDowell from Negima!, when she can actually use her magic, specializes in dark and ice spells. Her most powerful spell shown, Kosmike Katastrophe (translates roughly as End of the World), freezes a massive demon, then shatters it with a snap of her fingers. The spell breaks the second law of thermodynamics to freeze a 150 square foot area in absolute zero temperatures. She also has a smaller-scale ice spell that's supposed to freeze the target for a few years, but Asuna manages to break out of it quickly enough due to her magic nullification ability.

Evangeline's latest spell, Endless White Nine Heavens, is an original ice-lightning spell made specifically to combat constructs, and locks-on to an enemy and continually freezes them and their surroundings solid while leaving them conscious, so they can suffer for all eternity.

In the magic system of Negima!, ice spells are considered higher-level than fire spells of roughly equivalent power, because ice spells violate more of the laws of physics.

Dio Brando, of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure fame, had the vampiric ability to lower his own body temperature to the point where any flesh he touches freezes solid. He used this ability to protect himself from his weakness to the Ripple technique by freezing his enemies when they made contact with him to stop the Ripple from traveling. He demonstrated this quite effectively by mangling Will A. Zeppeli's arm and effectively taking him out of the fight. Later he showed even more powerful applications...such as freezing Dire's entire body before shattering him like glass.

Darker Than Black has November 11, an interesting case: he can freeze virtually any liquid, but there has to be a readily available source of said liquid first, like a pool of water, and can't simply summon ice out of nowhere. He also has to make contact with said liquid, and can't use his powers from range.

In Pokémon Special, this is how Black wins his Gym Battle against Drayden despite not having any Ice-types on his team. Black has his Braviary destroy the doors to the building where the battle is taking place, letting the blizzard outside seep in and slow down Drayden's Druddigon, which gives Braviary the upper hand.

Saint Seiya has Cygnus Hyoga, his master the Crysta Saint (only appears in the anime, the latter's master Aquarius Camus (Hyoga's direct master in the manga), and Hyoga's Rival Turned Evil Kracken Isaac. All of their attacks are ice-themed.

Cardcaptor Sakura: Sakura incapacitates the Watery card by tricking her into entering a walk-in freezer, then locking the door, waiting a bit, and capturing her became a simple matter.

The most powerful Ice Magic in Fairy Tail, Iced Shell, can trap its target in an (mostly) unbreakable block of ice that will eventually kill it since freezing is not harmless. The downside is that the caster's own body becomes the ice. Silver, the Ice Devil Slayer and one of the Nine Gates of Tartaros, wields an extremely powerful form of Ice magic that is especially effective against his fellow demons. And when Gray, his son, gets that very same magic, he shows off said effectiveness by curbstomping a demon that gave Natsu a hard time and taking down the Dragon-in-Chief of Tartaros.

As a yuki-onna, Yukime from Hell Teacher Nube can use her powers to do this. In fact she attempts to do that to Nube in her first intervention — but then she commits the mistake of targetting his students when they tried to stop her, making Nube go Badass Teacher on her. She sees the error of her ways and releases them. For massive and cruel irony, Yukime ends up in the receiving end thanks to Ippon Datana. When she refuses to follow his orders, he freezes her in place and stabs her all over with icicles, which finally kills her. (She's Back from the Dead later, but not before again trying to kill Nube with ice only to be stopped with The Powerof Love.)

Comic Books

This was shown in the JLA comic as one of the few effective ways of hurting Plastic Man. Since he is apparently immortal, actually killing him is out of the question.

The standard method employed by Mr. Freeze in the Batman franchise (sometimes non-lethally but often with deadly effect).

While it doesn't actually kill her, this is one method for defeating Killer Frost. Unlike most ice characters, she freezes things by absorbing the heat from them instead of the usual inexplicable 'cold ray,' and she must do so to stay warm. Encasing her in ice cuts off her power supply, and should rightfully be more dangerous to her than to a civilian. Of course, it's often not even dangerous to civilians.

Captain Cold has an ice gun capable of creating fields of absolute zero. Like the Kosmike Katastrophe spell by Evangeline from Negima! this works by violating the second law of thermodynamics.

Downplayed in Spider-Man, but a common tactic for defeating the Lizard involves luring him into a freezing area such as a fridge car. Being coldblooded, he will slow down and eventually lose consciousness.

Fan Works

In the Pony POV Series, ice is one of the only things Draconequi like Discord cannot affect with their powers. Ice is created by taking away heat and their magic doesn't work on something born from the absence of something.

In A Minor Variation, weather captain "Hurricane" Fluttershy incapacitates Gilda the griffon by luring her high enough that her wingfeathers freeze up. She even quotes Iron Man: "How'd you solve the icing problem?"

Fantasy Of Utter Ridiculousness: Megas's flaming sword can be turned into a frost sword when Coop turns on the air conditioner. Fittingly, it's powered by a Mega Slush.

The shapeshifting T-1000 is apparently destroyed when a truckload of liquid nitrogen ruptures, restricting its ability to shapeshift or even move. Arnie then shatters the T-1000 to pieces with a bullet. Unfortunately this occurs in a smelting plant whose heat melts the T-1000 so it can reassemble again.

The novelization of the movie says that while the freezing of the T-1000 did not harm it, it mucked up its artificial intelligence (due to superconductivity) making it possible to defeat it in the end. This is also implied in the director's cut of the movie, which shows the T-1000 lurching around the plant exhibiting difficulty in controlling its shapeshifting — for instance, when it touches a railing, its hand takes on the appearance of the railing, apparently without it meaning to do so.

The T2 scene was spoofed in Hot Shots! Part Deux, in which Saddam Hussein and his pet dog are frozen by a carbon dioxide fire extinguisher then shattered, reforming into a hybrid dog-dictator.

That famous B-MovieThe Blob (1958) ended with the eponymous alien monster being parachuted into the Arctic, as cold was the only way to stop it from spreading. Earlier it had been immobilised with carbon dioxide fire extinguishers.

Alienł: Ripley and the others lure the alien into a lead smelting plant, first super-heating it (with lead) then suddenly cooling it with water sprays. This causes the creature to shatter like glass would under such conditions (but unfortunately not lead).

The Fifth Element: Zorg's demonstration of his latest BFG includes "the grand finale: the all-new Ice Cube System" as one of its options, though it only gets used on a test dummy.

Liu Kang kills Sub-Zero (who is known for his ice powers) this way in the Mortal Kombat movie. He uses a bucket of water that goes through Sub-Zero's ice shield and becomes an ice spike that impales him with extreme prejudice, pins him to a wall, and then freezes him solid. Then, in Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, when Sub-Zero's heroic younger brother shows up, he freezes Smoke and saves Liu Kang. To cement that Smoke dies, the robot then explodes.

Villains too can use this trope as seen in Jason X, when Jason sticks Adrienne's face in liquid nitrogen, then smashes her face on the counter. Jason had years earlier been immobilised (but of course, not killed) by being lured into a cryogenic chamber.

Simon Phoenix suffers this fate at the end of Demolition Man, before having his head kicked off.

Mindhunters (2004). In the first trap set by the Serial Killer, Christian Slater's feet get blasted with liquid nitrogen; his ankles then shatter and he falls to the ground and crumbles.

While not necessarily killed by the ice, Megatron from the live-action Transformers movie was frozen for decades after crashing into the North Pole. He was kept frozen while hidden in the Hoover Dam. When Bumblebee was captured, they kept him immobilized with blasts of carbon dioxide.

Iron Man: Tony Stark uses his suit's greater resistance to icing up at high altitudes to immobilize Iron Monger.

The Frost Giants in Thor use a combination of this and blades shaped out of ice to kill their enemies. Towards the end of the film, this is also how Loki immobilizes Heimdall, although he breaks himself out of it shortly thereafter and rejoins the fight.

Phantasm II shows that cold is one of the few forces known to have any effect against the Tall Man.

A vat of liquid nitrogen is how Boris Grishenko meets his end in Goldeneye. So much for being invincible.

The 2010 film Arctic Blast postulated that a solar eclipse could cause a hole in the ozone layer that then allowed the cold of outer space to leak into earth's atmosphere, creating a creeping "ice fog" that wound up flash-freezing most of Australia. Any number of iced Aussies were shown during the film.

In one old ghost story, a ghost that dripped water all over its victims and made them miserable was defeated by being lured into an ice house. The cold froze the ghost's water and turned it into an icy statue.

The first deathtrap in Ripper is a loaded crossbow aimed at someone in the dining room, its stock propped on top of an ice cube. As the ice melts, its stock settles onto the shelf and depresses the firing lever by its own weight.

Liquid Nitrogen Grenades make an appearance in Matthew Reilly's Ice Station, but don't cause the instant freezing usually seen with this trope. Instead, people exposed to them freeze from the outside in.

They're already dead, but in Dante's Inferno (part of the Divine Comedy), the lowest circle of hell has traitors distorted and frozen in ice for all eternity. This is the same level that Brutus, Cassius, and Judas reside on, but with the added bonus of having their feet chewed on by Satan.

Jack London's classic short story "To Build a Fire" tells of a rather foolish and unsympathetic gold miner in Yukon Territory who goes off on a journey alone and winds up freezing to death after he falls into water and is unable to build a fire to warm himself.

The Left Behind series has a somewhat different version of this trope: Enigma Babylon One World Faith leader Peter Mathews was killed by sharp feathers made from an ice sculpture of him.

The Dresden Files: The more powerful Winter Fae can do this. Wizards can do it too; Harry first used ice by using his fire spell to draw heat from a puddle, freezing it and causing his pursuer to slip. Later he becomes the Winter Knight, and can use more traditional ice attacks, like freezing someone solid.

Live Action TV

Star Trek: The Next Generation: In the pilot episode, Q immobilized a redshirt by freezing him after he drew a phaser; he doesn't die, but it's implied he might have without immediate medical attention. Also, Security Chief/first season regular Tasha Yar, but Q agrees to restore her when Picard protests.

Star Trek: Voyager ("Displaced"): When Voyager's crew is trapped in a prison with different environments for different species, Tom and B'Elanna dispose of two Nyrian mooks (from a very warm planet) by luring them into a subzero habitat. Later Captain Janeway beams the rest of the Nyrians there, and threatens to keep them there until her ship is returned.

In the Doctor Who serial Planet of the Daleks, the centre of the planet Spiridon is filled with ice instead of lava; thus an "ice-flow" is used to destroy the Dalek army.

Star Trek: Enterprise: Mirror!Phlox tortures a Tholian by reducing the temperature in its cell. When it drops low enough, the poor Tholian shatters. Unusual in that Tholians normally live in a superheated environment, and the cell was still well above normal for most folks.

One demon in the Angel episode "Expecting" was taken down with liquid nitrogen.

Primeval has a fungus monster that can only be killed by subzero temperatures. Connor nearly dies after trapping himself in a freezer with it. The same goes for Jenny too.

An aquatic Monster of the Week on Tremors: The Series was killed by dumping dry ice into the aquaduct it was submerged in. Unusual in that the heroes could have shot it or blown it up quite easily, but needed to keep its carcass intact to avoid contaminating the area with the mixmaster in its tissues.

A bitchy fashionista on CSI: New York fell onto the bent stem of a liquid nitrogen tank, which injected her chest with the frigid fluid and literally froze her heart solid.

The Jade Regent Campaign from RPGMP3 features a character called Skygni, who's a magically Awakened frost-breathing Winter Wolf. He swore a Blood Oath (under duress) to not eat people. Not the ones travelling with the heroes' caravan, anyway.

Tabletop RPG

In the Traveller Double Adventure "The Chamax Plague/Horde", the title alien monsters are defeated by luring them into an icy snow field and with a cold-generation field, respectively.

Forgotten Realms' god of rot Moander has penchant for controlling slaves via parasitic vines. Since they were of tropical variety any area spell cold enough to harm a victim was overkill for them. Later Moander itself got a piece of paraelemental ice delivered and force-fed.

Toys

In one BIONICLE serial taking place in an Alternate Universe, Kopaka and Onua kill Ahkmou by having Kopaka freeze him and Onua smash him to pieces with his claws. This was also how Vakama defeated the manifestation of his power: by using his power of fire to absorb all the heat in the area, effectively freezing it.

A secret research lab is built in high mountains on a permanently frozen planet, the idea being that if anything goes wrong, the cold would stop whatever they create from leaving the labs. In case of an emergency, the doors are locked and the power cut off, and after a week or so, cleanup teams with arctic gear can take care of the frozen mess.

The sequels add Cryo Blast as a tech ability, and the Avalanche heavy weapon. The N7 Paladin class in Mass Effect 3's multiplayer has the Snap Freeze ability that sprays freezing liquid in an arc in front of the Paladin. It can cause damage on its own but is particularly useful for slowing enemies down and increasing the damage they take.

The Legend of Zelda has the Ice Arrows, which freezes enemies upon contact. Weaker enemies will be killed the moment they're thawed out, while stronger enemies will need either another Ice Arrow or to be dealt with up-close. The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past uses an Ice Rod instead of Ice Arrows.

Luminous Arc: Mel the Torrent Witch starts out with a simple water spell, but she later learns Ice Crush, her strongest magical attack second only to Claire's Volt Storm. She is also the Combat Medic.

The Metroids themselves are traditionally vulnerable to extreme cold, which is probably the only reason why Samus has an Ice Beam. This is also why, in Metroid Prime, the Space Pirates built their Metroid research facility in the icy environment of Phendrana Drifts: they hope that the cold weakens any Metroids that might escape, making them slightly less dangerous (one of the better ideas their Science Team came up with). It also explains why, when Samus becomes part Metroid in Metroid: Fusion, the X start coming after her with ice-cold parasites that hurt her if absorbed, at least until she can get the Varia Suit to withstand extreme temperatures.

Metroid Fusion and Metroid Prime 3 enhance Samus's arsenal with Ice Missiles. For Fusion, this is because Samus is told that the Metroid-based aspect of her physiology would reject the Ice Beam. It's likely that this is a deliberate lie. She does get the Ice Beam for the final battle against the Omega Metroid.

The page image shows the result of the Ice Spreader from Metroid Prime, one of several "Beam Combo" items that are hidden, optional upgrades.

In Metroid: Other M, a rogue group of Federation scientists manages to engineer some Metroids immune to cold, effectively rendering them invincible. Fortunately, all living specimens of this group are killed in an explosion before they become mature. And the rest of the Federation realizes exactly how stupid creating invincible Metroids is, and do not continue the project.

Crysis has frost-based aliens armed with ice-shard guns. Later on, you can get one of their weapons to use against them. And it has infinite ammo, too!

Attempted in Dead Space with the hunter, which you have to lure into a cryogenic chamber to freeze it solid. While this seems to work at first, it manages to kill it as much as any other things you've tried so far. In the end, it requires firing the rocket engines of a spaceship into its face to really kill it dead.

One of the bosses in the final level of Kid Dracula requires to shoot it with an ice projectile which is almost completely useless elsewhere.

If the eponymous character is up against both a fire-using boss and an ice-using boss in the same batch of Robot Masters, the one using fire will usually be weak to one using ice, though this is occasionally inverted. Otherwise, Kill It with Water.

10 has Solar Man (fire), Chill Man (ice) and Pump Man (Water). Kill Solar Man with water. The Chill Spike (which creates spines of ice on the ground) is good against Nitro Man (who turns into a motorcycle).

In New Super Mario Bros. Wii, while few enemies die outright from being frozen with the Ice Flower, it does turn many into ice blocks which can then be crushed with a Ground Pound or thrown into walls. This is the most convenient way to handle Dry Bones.

In World of Warcraft, Mages and Death Knights are both capable of specializing in Ice-based attacks. Also, Shamans have Frost Shock. Averted with Hunters, whose freezing traps don't kill, but merely immobilize an enemy in ice or create a slick surface that slows enemy movement. As mentioned above, many Scourge mobs also tend towards ice.

One fascinating quirk of dwarven physics in Dwarf Fortress is that any water exposed to open air below freezing temperature, freezes instantly along with anything that was unlucky enough to be in it. When you melt or dig out the ice, only things left are bones and metal equipment.

Red Alert 3 gives the Allied faction several new ice-based superweapons and units, including Cryoblasts and Cryocopters. While the ice itself doesn't do any damage, it does leave frozen targets vulnerable enough that a single shot from the weakest infantry unit will shatter an Apocolypse tank.

Freezing to death from staying outside too long is one of the ways you can let Nancy Drew die in Treasure in the Royal Tower and White Wolf of Icicle Creek, and in one of these games the villain tries to get rid of her this way.

In Final Fantasy VIII, at the end of the first act, the party's gotten in Edea's way for a bit too long, so what does she do? Impale.

This seems to be Soulcalibur's (and by extension Siegfried's) goal for the entire world in Soulcalibur IV.

Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel! introduces ice-elemental weapons that can freeze enemies solid and shatter them into teeny-tiny pieces. DLC character Aurelia not only has an Action Skill that does constant Cryo damage at a certain area, but also has an entire skill tree dedicated to doing Cryo damage in a large area, with her final ability letting her do Cryo damage with any gun after scoring a kill.

In The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, frost damage hurts health and stamina. A lot of enemies in Skyrim favor ice too. The more powerful Undead shoot frost from their hands, vampires fling spikes of ice magic, Wispmothers fling volleys of ice spells while their children attack, Ice Wraiths are hostile elemental spirits of ice and air, and Dragons occasionally use the Frost Breath Shout. The native people of Skyrim, the Nords, developed a hardy resistance to cold in response to the various ice-wielding menaces in Skyrim. Including Skyrim itself, since it's the coldest province in Tamriel. Conversely, ice isn't that practical for the player character to use since so many of the enemies in the game are resistant to it. Taken to an even higher level in Dragonborn with the return of Bloodmoon's Stalhrim. Players can now forge weapons made of enchanted ice that are on the same level as Ebony weapons that also increase the power of any Frost enchantments placed on them.

Baldurs Gate Dark Alliance has several magical spells that work like this, with the potential for turning enemies into little ice chunks if you have the proper spell setup. They either turn all blue for a time where you can hit them physically to shatter them, or if you do it long enough, they shatter all on their own. It's not really practical to do this sometimes because they might be immune to it for some reason or another, or it's rather mana-intensive to do this for long periods.

Subverted slightly in Duke Nukem 3D with the Freezethrower. It fires frozen nitrogen crystals that bounce around the room and damage any enemies they hit (including yourself if you're not careful), but when they reach death, they instead freeze solid, at which point they are a One-Hit-Point Wonder - although they will harmlessly thaw out after a few seconds (but can still be downed or re-frozen in one hit). Duke Nukem Forever changes the Freezethrower into a ray-based weapon (actually some kind of maintenance tool) with a similar effect.

In Fire Emblem, the Ice Dragon can theoretically do this via using their ice breaths. In Fire Emblem Akaneia, Tiki (who's actually a Divine Dragon) can use ice dragon-like attacks if she gets an Ice Stone from the secret shops.

In Touhou Project ice fairies can often to do this. One of the strongest fairies is Cirno who can manipulate cold to this extent. Even if it's effective enough to freeze enemy projectiles, she likes to freeze frogs more.

Visual Novels

In Saya no Uta the the titularcharacter is killed by spilling liquid nitrogen on her and then having a huge part of her frozen body blown off with a shotgun.

Web Comics

In Drowtales, Sil'lice is one of the most skilled Ice Sorcerer's, let alone sorcerers in the setting. As she fights, the battleground is coated and covered in layers of frost and her opponents begin to suffer first frost bite, then begin to freeze solid. This is used for some disturbing Fingore when one of her opponents blocks her sword blow, only to have her fingers snap off from the impact.

Stonewater the orc in Dominic Deegan can conjure ice to use as a weapon; it is just as effective as holy magic against demons (which is to say, very) because the orcs believe ice to be sacred.

Red Mage of 8-Bit Theater has a tendency to throw around ice spells. His most epic is easily using Ice-9 to freeze the Fiend of Fire into a Bag of Holding.

Slightly Damned: The demon Lazuli uses ice magic to summon sharp, pointy icicles. They are very fatal, and rather messy.

Tigatron of Beast Wars fame used a gun that was seen to instantly freeze other Transformers. And while he used it in only one battle, Megatron's Transmetal 2 dragon form was capable of it as well.

Used in the Disney Afternoon cartoon Darkwing Duck to immobilise a super-villain made of liquid. It was ultimately only a temporary solution.

Terry apprehended the otherwise mostly untouchable Inque (mostly; being diluted with water is also bad for her.) this way in Batman Beyond; when she invaded the Batcave, he used Mr. Freeze's gun, which Bruce had confiscated years ago.) Freezing her also was a useful Tailor-Made Prison for a while. It might have held her for good if the guy in charge of watching her didn't develop a weird crush. However, after repeated exposure, she figured out that compressing herself in a ball would keep most of her body active while only freezing the outside layer.

Nonlethal variety: Batman was able to subdue Clayface this way in one episode of Batman: The Animated Series. (However, the villain got the jump on him when he tried it a second time later in the episode.

In Avatar: The Last Airbender, an bonus pop up noted Katara only cover the face of firebenders when she freezes people. This is presumably because others can't survive.

Real Life

The Swedish Empire in 1700, Napoleon in 1812, and Hitler during WWII all tried to invade Russia, and Russia kicked them all out the same way; by letting the really nasty Russian winters (sometimes called General Winter) drain their forces, then defeating them.

Finland took advantage of this against the Soviet Union in the Winter War of 1939-1940. The brutal winter that year caused great problems for the Soviet advance, helping the Finnish to resist effectively, despite being ridiculously outnumbered. They had to give up and surrender some territory in the spring though.

Partial subversion; many historians now say that winter is not the worst time to campaign in the arctic. Indeed apparently the Finns were praying for spring to bring them lots of good old fashioned mud.

Only a partial subversion. When the first freezes of winter come in the far north it actually helps an army on the move when the mud freezes over; Hitler's Wehrmacht made better progress when the hard freeze came. However, when the temperature dropped to thirty below and the blizzards came, they suffered terribly.

In the case of Napoleon's men, another reason they ended up dead of hypothermia might have been tin disease, the transformation of white tin (Sn's main form at room temperature) to brittle grey tin (which eventually crumbles into powder) beginning at temperatures of 13.2 degrees Celsius. This transformation is slow at first, but drop the temperature to -30 degrees Celsius and below and the reaction should kick-start. Napoleon's men used tin buttons. The temperatures could have been that low in Russia. Go figure.

David Hackett Fischer in Albion's Seed said that the Puritans unwittingly chose a very good spot to place their colony. While a New England winter is hard on humans, it actually does kill germs.

Like its liquid counterpart, ice will tear up the landscape given time. No matter how hard the rock, even a little crack will doom it in the right climate.

In many types of extermination in the real world, cold temperatures, or freezing, is used to kill pests. It can be ineffective, or take a long time. Kill It with Fire, and cold temperatures, are used to kill bed bugs and other pests in some cases, other than poison, in which the house's temperature is lowered, or raised, substantially. This can take multiple attempts, such as the process being done every other day or so for a year. And if the problem persists, once again, another year.

As shown on Mythbusters, one of the most effective ways to disarm a bomb is not to cut the wires, but to freeze it with liquid nitrogen. This stops the electrical components from functioning and is quite effective. Mythbusters showed that if the bomb squad in Lethal Weapon 2 had used liquid nitrogen to freeze the bomb in Murtaugh's bathroom, the dive into the bathtub would have been unnecessary. They simply could have stood up and walked away.

Cryosurgery. It can kill cancer cells in a considerably cleaner way. The extremely cool name is a bonus.

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